Morris Surdin

Morris Surdin (born May 8, 1914 in Toronto ; † August 19, 1979 ibid) was a Canadian composer and conductor.

Surdin had violin lessons from the age of six, later also lessons in harmony and counterpoint from Louis Gesensway . In 1945 he studied conducting with César Borré and in 1950 composition with Henry D. Brant in New York . From 1939 to 1941 and freelance from 1947 he worked as a composer for the CBC . He also worked in the USA as an arranger for the Philadelphia Pops and from 1949 to 1954 as a conductor and composer for CBS Network .

With the author Ray Darby , Surdin realized several radio productions for the CBC, including the musical comedy The Gallant Greenhorn and the series Once upon a Time (1949, directed by Esse Ljungh ). He also composed the music for most of WO Mitchell's radio plays (including Jake an th Kid ). He has also composed for CBC Playhouse , CBC Stage , Adventure Theater , Festival and Hatch's Mill , and was involved as a composer of the film music and conductor in the Hollywood production Hospital (1971).

Further works were The Remarkable Rocket (196l, for the National Ballet of Canada ), two accordion concerts (1966 and 1976 for Joseph Macerollo ), Wild Rose (1967, again with WO Mitchell, for the Mac 14 Theater Society of Calgary ), Suite Canadienne and A Feast of Thunder (1970 and 1972, for the Shevchenko Musical Ensemble ), Eine Kleine Hammer-Klapper Musik (1976, for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra ) and a viola concerto (1978, for Rivka Golani ). The entire musical legacy of Sudrin, including more than 2000 radio plays, film and drama music, was acquired in 1978 by the University of Calgary .

swell

personal data
SURNAME	Surdin, Morris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 8, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Toronto
DATE OF DEATH	19th August 1979
Place of death	Toronto